DNA Pioneer: Africans Less Intelligent than Westerners
Dr. James D. Watson attends The New York Public Library's Annual Library Lions Gala in 2006.
Evan Agostini, Getty ImagesFrom The Independent (UK): "James Watson, a Nobel Prize winner for his part in the unraveling of DNA who now runs one of America's leading scientific research institutions, drew widespread condemnation for comments he made ahead of his arrival in Britain today for a speaking tour at venues including the Science Museum in London.
The 79-year-old geneticist reopened the explosive debate about race and science in a newspaper interview in which he said Western policies towards African countries were wrongly based on an assumption that black people were as clever as their white counterparts when "testing" suggested the contrary. He claimed genes responsible for creating differences in human intelligence could be found within a decade."
Is this The Bell Curve all over again? What's behind this theory and others like it? Is it just scientific racism?
UPDATE: Watson Apologizes
12:07 PM ET | 10-17-2007 | permalink








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